Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Independence is happiness.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

Nothing is hopeless that is right.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Failure is impossible.

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.